[pmwiki-users] PmWiki.BasicEditing

Chris Cox ccox at airmail.net
Fri Aug 12 15:40:19 CDT 2005


Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> I've started a revision of the basic editing page, at
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/BasicEditing .  The top
> part of the page introduces the editing process and very
> basic markups, while the bottom part of the page is a table
> that demonstrates other basic markups.
> 
> The idea is that someone reading this page can quickly get
> an idea of the commonly used markups, and be able to come 
> back to it as a reference and demonstration of those markups.
> We'll also link to this page from the EditQuickReference.
> 
> We may want to rename the page to be "Editing Basics" or even
> simply "Editing Pages" instead of "Basic Editing".
> 
> I could definitely use some help fleshing out the table in the
> bottom part -- just decide what sorts of markups belong here, and
> follow the markup style I've already started in the previous
> part of the table.
> 
> Some of the table entries probably need "see also"
> links that point to pages with greater detail on the topic.
> 
> Contributions to this page are especially welcome.

All I can say is .... "Eww! A Table!"

I find the (:markup:) thingy to work pretty well and just
let it go linearly down the page... obviously this
is very subjective.

Sure makes the page easier to maintain if you drop
the table... "Eww!"

I did a quick test on the page for lines ending in \

Where is that needed?  I mean in general white space
is eaten.  Now if it pro\
duced

Not if it produced

something like that behavior... I could see the usefulness
.. maybe...  but as it is.. it inserts a space.

Just curious.





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